When you’re going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
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The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven’t and hadn’t any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
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I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do, then go ahead and do it with ease.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
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We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
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If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?
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Time doesn’t take away from true friendship, nor does separation.
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
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We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we’re doing, if we’re selling it, if the listener likes us.
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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